Day: March 17, 2009

11 AIG executives who received “retention” bonuses of more than $1 million … are no longer at the company. Sounds less like “bonuses” and more like “looting.”

Alex Ross gives an early review of Dylan’s latest, due out at the end of April.

Still time to start playing…

A formal study of Wikipedia’s dispute resolution and arbitration processes concludes that they are successful because they don’t resolve disputes. Rather, they weed out unproductive users and encourage productive users to engage constructively in further debate.

Working around hotel and airport firewalls.

Happy Evacuation Day, everyone! Today in Boston, we celebrate the evacuation of the British from the town after Washington trained guns on their positions from Dorchester Heights. And that’s why government offices are closed and people take sick days from work. Right?

Odds that there will be a lot of noise in the streets? I don’t know; what’s the current unemployment rate? Might get interesting.

Feck off!!

If the pizza here was as great in character as the owner, this is a big loss: “‘For 85 years we’re doing the same thing, dropping the coals into the firebox every night,’ said Ms. Ciminieri, who promised to kiss this reporter if he did not reveal her age. ‘Why would this happen now? I don’t know.’”